Subject: Sea level in Israel has been rising and falling over the last 2,500 years http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100126101411.htm Rising and falling sea levels over relatively short periods do not indicate long-term trends. An assessment of hundreds and thousands of years shows that what seems an irregular phenomenon today is in fact nothing new,” explains Dr. Dorit Sivan, […]
http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/bbc-takes-openly-anti-war-stance-in-coverage-of-blair-testimony-on-iraq/#more-2074 BBC takes openly anti-war stance in coverage of Blair testimony on Iraq Reasonable people can disagree over the wisdom of the Iraq war. But having watched Tony Blair’s bravado performance at the Chilcot Inquiry yesterday — the fifth (!) attempt by the British establishment to find a smoking gun proving Blair “lied†about WMD […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-675010,00.html Interview with President Hamid Karzai Focus Must Be Protecting Civilians or ‘Failure Is Certain’ In an interview with SPIEGEL Afghan President Hamid Karzai gives his verdict on last week’s London conference, saying he welcomes the international community’s acceptance of a reconciliation program with the Taliban. He greets Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s new strategy of focusing […]
Americans finally starting to see through the president’s prevarications Ralph Alter As much as Barack Obama professes his admiration for our 16th POTUS, Abraham Lincoln, B.O. still seems determined to disprove one of Honest Abe’s most famous bromides: “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the […]
January 30, 2010 7:00 A.M. More Washington As Obama sees it, whatever the problem, the solution is more Washington. The world turns. In Indonesia, the principal of a Muslim boarding school in Tangerang who is accused of impregnating a 15-year-old student says the DNA test will prove that a malevolent genie is the real father. […]
Friday Afternoon Roundup – It’s Gitmo Time Posted: 29 Jan 2010 01:58 PM PST So Obama had his big State of the Union television debut, or what would have been a bigger television debut, if he had actually hoarded his appearances, instead of constantly delivering televised addresses to the nation, Castro style. Obama did manage […]
These Palestinians aren’t happy about Israel settlement freeze Many Palestinian construction workers were employed in building projects that Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu’s 10-month settlement freeze has put on hold. By Ilene R. Prusher Staff writer posted January 26, 2010 at 3:43 pm EST Jalazon Refugee Camp, West Bank —Theoretically, the 10-month freeze on building Israeli […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/30/obama-girl-kicks-obama-to-the-curb//print/ THE WASHINGTON TIMES OPINION/ANALYSIS: President Obama has been running his mouth a lot lately. Last week, he stabbed his lobbyist friends in the back and attacked his allies in Congress as if he were an outsider. Talking smack isn’t boosting his low popularity though, even among his own erstwhile supporters. During his State of […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/30/backlash-may-move-911-terror-trial-manhattan//print/ Backlash may move 9/11 trial from NYC Julie Pace ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Pressured by a growing clamor from New York, the Obama administration is considering moving the trial of Sept. 11 terror suspects away from Manhattan, where it had been scheduled to take place just blocks from the site of the twin […]
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/02/01/100201fa_fact_mcgrath?currentPage=8 “Take our country back. Our way of life is now under attack. Draw a line in the sand, so they all understand And our values stay intact. TAKE IT BACK!!!….” The Movement The rise of Tea Party activism. by Ben McGrath February 1, 2010  Liberals saw the activists as caricatures—mere tools of right-wing […]
